A suspect awaiting court on 50 counts of child porn possession found himself at Polk County Jail again on Wednesday.

Daniel Keath

Daniel Keath, 31, of Winter Haven, was jailed after authorities said he violated a judge’s order by living in a home with his girlfriend’s child.

Keath was first jailed on child porn charges after a 2009 sting by Polk County deputies that led to 45 arrests. An IT worker at the time of his arrest, he had a server in his garage with eight hard drives.

Deputies accused Keath of downloading child porn and corresponding with a 15-year-old girl through texts and instant messaging.

Keath had been out of jail since June 2009 after posting a $250,000 bond and receiving orders from a judge to avoid contact with children 18 years old or younger and to have no internet access, according to the State Attorney’s Office.

A state Department of Children and Families worker reported to authorities that Keath was living with a girlfriend and her 6-year-old child on Lake Daisy Loop in Winter Haven, according to a pretrial release official. He also had a cell phone and computer with internet access.

His bond is now set at $510,000.

Photo provided by the Lakeland Police Department.

Lakeland police released Wednesday photos of a man accused of withdrawing money on Nov. 11 from a local ATM using a stolen debit card.

The man is shown in three pictures poking out from a vehicle wearing a hat, shades and a sweatshirt.

Anyone with information can contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-226-8477. Callers can remain anonymous and be eligible for a cash reward.

WINTER HAVEN | Mary Carney was crocheting Monday night inside her room at the Royal Inn Motel when she heard guests shouting that the building was on fire.

The motel’s main building quickly became engulfed in flames and smoke. Carney, 50, was one of 12 guests who were displaced after a fire destroyed 50 percent of the motel’s main building, the Polk County Fire Rescue said.

The guests were all given rooms at the motel’s undamaged second building. No one was injured.

The fire started at about 9:30 p.m. in the main building of the motel at 3525 Lake Alfred Road in Winter Haven. The building contained the motel offices and 18 to 20 guest rooms, Polk County Fire Rescue said.

Sarbjit Hayre, the motel’s owner, said the main building also housed a laundry room and pool. The building was covered with debris and some walls were burnt down.

Carney sat in her wheelchair and held onto a blanket as she watched firefighters put out the fire. She has lived in the motel for about three years and all of her belongings were in the room.

“I grabbed what I could,” Carney said. “That was the only place I had.”

Hayre, the motel’s owner, said she and her husband have owned the motel since 1997. She thinks the fire could have started somewhere in the motel’s office.

Monday night Hayre remained in shock as firefighters investigated the fire.

“Nothing like this has ever happened,” she said.

The scene was under control by 11 p.m. The cause of fire hasn’t been determined. Fire officials and investigators from the state Fire Marshal’s Office will determine the cause of the fire.

Check out these counterfeit $50 bills a group of people used at a Cleveland Court Elementary School rummage sale this month. A volunteer who ran the event told me the bills appeared to be altered $5, and they were only discovered as fakes as proceeds were being counted after the event. Organizers couldn’t give descriptions of the suspects to investigators, and police don’t have leads in the case.

Based on these images, looks like the bills would have fooled a lot of people:

Sifting through images of stolen goods that Lakeland police investigators are trying to reunite with owners piqued my interest in one in particular: a bag full of cell phones. From the picture, it looks like there are as many as 30 phones of various shapes, brands and colors.

Lakeland Police Department sent me some information today about how it recovered the bag. In December, investigators received an anonymous tip that meth and marijuana were being sold from a house at 602 W. Belmar St. The tipster told them stolen goods were being taken to the house and bartered for drugs. Police served a search warrant at the house on Dec. 14 and discovered a cache of more than 1,000 items, all of which they believed were stolen.

An officer tells me many of the other belongings investigators are trying to find owners for were found in the same house. 

If you’ve had something stolen and spot it on the list, contact Detective Stephanie Burcham or Public Safety Aide Rebecca Swick at 863-834-6900 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Have proof of ownership, like a receipt, ready when you pick up the item.